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The most important statistic released last week was the unemployment rate. After dropping from 5.6% in March to 5.4% in April, it bounced back to 5.6% in May, leaving economists mystified about the trend. While the jobless rate is generally considered to be among the most accurate of the figures...
The Crimson bats delivered nine hits, including four for extra bases. Yet the left-on-base statistic continues to embarrass Harvard, as they stranded nine yesterday.
Similarly, the sex therapists argue that the chance of catching an AIDS infection from donated blood is not 1 in 40,000, as the blood-bank industry now claims, but 1 in 5,418. They derive that figure from the highly inflated statistic of 3 million AIDS virus carriers. Even...
At one time, Thernstrom made a facetious and careless remark when he attempted to explain why more working Black women were household heads than white women, and ascribed the statistic partly to the resentment unemployed men hold for their working wives. His wording offended many, and rightfully so. But to...
"The real problem is saving people's lives. It's a public safety issue," Brady said. She added, "No matter what statistic you want to use, 20,000 handgun deaths each year is just too many."